#dam — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #dam, aggregated by home.social.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@radiotemblor/117051634694399889
#Panama: Peasant communities held a march to protest the dam project promoted by the Panama Canal Authority (ACP) and the forced eviction of families from their lands and historic sites.
The demonstration took place in Panama City on August 3, 2026.
Photos and video: https://www.radiotemblor.org/movilizacion-campesina-en-defensa-del-rio-indio-en-panama-audio/
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𝗡𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗮𝗹 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝘂𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗼𝗽 𝗱𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗺 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗺 𝗯𝗲𝗸𝗹𝗮𝗱, 𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲 𝘇𝗲𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝗯𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝗳
Het Nationaal Monument op de Dam in Amsterdam, ter nagedachtenis aan Nederlandse oorlogsslachtoffers, is afgelopen nacht beklad met blauwe en gele verf.
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Damascus International Airport - Damascus, Syria
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_International_Airport
https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=13/33.411499/36.515598#OSDI #DAM #Damascus #Syria #airport #aviation #avgeeks #GIS
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Busy Beavers - The Turbidity Signature Of Ecosystem Engineers At Work
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https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.70661 <-- shared paper
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H/T @alan Puttock
“Beavers are the quintessential ecosystem engineers. In slow-flowing streams, they create complex wetlands with ponds by building dams and canals that can positively impact biodiversity, hydrology and water quality. These activities can interchangeably capture or release sediment along the watercourse. To date this has not been quantified at the resolution of rainfall events or beaver activity. This study used 15-min frequency, sustained monitoring upstream and downstream of a newly establishing beaver wetland to measure episodic changes in water turbidity at an event resolution. Monitoring showed no significant differences between upstream and downstream turbidity over 160 days when the first pair of beavers, known not to be building dams or canals, were resident. Shortly after introduction of another beaver pair, however, dam building, burrows and canal excavations were quickly observed, resulting in the creation of a complex beaver wetland between 2021 and 2024. Monitoring over 375 days during this period showed significant differences. Downstream turbidity was significantly higher overall than upstream: 13.1 Nephelometric Turbidity Units (NTU) compared to 4.2 NTU. Stochastic spikes in downstream turbidity during the study period not recorded upstream were associated with dam building and burrowing. Overall, there was no significant difference in turbidity loads, which was at least partially explained by a reduction in discharge downstream, particularly in higher flows, during the dam building period. This demonstrates a complex system with the trapping of influent sediment, the storing of water and the periodic release of beaver wetland sediment leading to net balance in loads. These results help provide context for other studies which have used temporally discrete sampling campaigns rather than continuous high-frequency monitoring. They provide a unique insight into the downstream impacts of a rapidly developing beaver wetland over its first three and a half years in a landscape that hasn't had beavers for over 400 years…"
#hydromorphic #water #hydrology #dam #beaverdam #waterquality #biodiversity #ecology #benefits #NatureBasedSolutions #Wetlands #Ecology #Biodiversity #EnvironmentalScience #Wildlife #Ecosystem #bioviversity #conservation #restoration #landscaperecovery #floodmanagement #FloodMitigation #flooding #energy #floodrisk #sustainability #wetlands #hydrography #dams #impoundment #deadwood #waterresources #landscapeengineer #benefits #vegetation #ecology #ecosystem #riversystemsstabilisation #naturalwaterregulation #resilience #valleysreborn #fisheries #invertebrates #extremeweather #floodflows #sediment #baseflow #drought #landmanagement #naturalsystems #landuse #monitoring #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal -
Call for speakers - DAM Australia 2026.
10 November in Melbourne.
Join the speaker line-up with 200+ professionals in Melbourne for this year's Digital Asset Management (DAM) event – 20+ expert speakers, real-world case studies, and future-ready insights.
If you're interested in speaking or would like to suggest a topic, please get in touch with Christine at [email protected].👇
https://henrystewartconferences.com/events/dam-australia-2026 #globalmuseum #museums #DAM -
Water handling structure at base of Wachusett Reservoir
#photo #photography #buildings #dam #massachusetts #ma #clintonma #building #architecture #infrastructure #water
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Wachusett Reservoir is the largest hand-built dam in the world, assembled from great granite blocks
#photo #photography #dam #infrastructure #landscape #massachusetts #ma #clintonma #wachusettreservoir #grass
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Descending curved slope downstream of Wachusett Reservoir near Clinton, MA
#photo #photography #reservoir #water #dam #ma #massachusetts #landscape #summer #grass
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Eager Beavers - Rodents Engineer Czech Wetland Project After Years Of Human Delay [ecosystem engineers]
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/11/beavers-save-czech-taxpayers-by-flooding-ex-army-training-site <-- shared technical media article
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver-engineered_dam_in_the_Czech_Republic <-- shared wiki technical page
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https://phys.org/news/2025-02-fine-beavers-czech-treasury-million.html <-- shared technical article
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https://youtu.be/GSTw8qmBP4Y?si=XK2Iy2pAltW91flj <-- shared video (Czech)
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H/T @ScienceGirl
"We don't expect any conflict with the beaver in the next 10 years," ~ Bohumil Fiser from the Czech Nature Conservation Agency
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“For seven years, planners struggled to complete a $1.2 million wetland restoration project in the Brdy region of the Czech Republic. The goal was to build a dam that would improve water management and bring back valuable wetland habitat, but the project remained trapped in a maze of permits and approvals.
Then a family of eight Eurasian beavers did what engineers had planned… without permits, machinery, or a budget.
The beavers built a network of dams in almost the exact area chosen for the proposed project, naturally restoring the wetland system officials had spent years trying to create. After seeing the results, authorities decided there was little point continuing with the original human-built dam.
Although some reports suggested the beavers completed the work overnight, experts say their construction likely took several weeks. The reason it seemed sudden is that the animals quietly worked away until their finished dams became impossible to miss.
Beavers are known as “ecosystem engineers” because their behaviour can reshape entire environments. By cutting trees and blocking streams, they create ponds and wetlands that support countless species, including fish, amphibians, insects, birds, and mammals.
Their wetlands also act as natural water reservoirs, helping during droughts, reducing flood risks, filtering water, storing carbon, and keeping landscapes wetter during wildfires…
Once heavily hunted across Europe, beaver populations have been recovering thanks to conservation efforts, proving that sometimes nature can solve problems humans spend years trying to fix…"
#water #hydrology #KlabavaRiver #Czech #BrdyRegion #protected #CzechRepublic #armytraining #military #beaver #Eurasianbeavers #dam #beaverdam #waterquality #restoration #biodiversity #crayfish #wetland #ecology #benefits #Beavers #NatureBasedSolutions #Wetlands #Ecology #Biodiversity #Agroforestry #EnvironmentalScience #Conservation #Wildlife #Ecosystem #bioviversity #conservation #restoration #landscaperecovery #EcosystemEngineers #nature #floodmanagement #FloodMitigation #flood #flooding #energy #floodrisk #sustainability #wetlands #hydrography #dams #impoundment #deadwood #waterresources #landscapeengineer #agriculture #benefits #vegetation #ecology #ecosystem #riversystemsstabilisation #naturalwaterregulation #resilience #drought #wildfire #valleysreborn #slowdetermination #fisheries #invertebrates #extremeweather #floodflows #sediment #baseflow #drought #landmanagement #naturalsystems #landuse #ecosystemengineers #watermanagement -
Interesting and important take from Yvonne Dam on LinkedIn:
"I asked myself the uncomfortable question - what do I actually do that AI can’t?"
And her answer could not be more to the point. It shows why we are professionals, and AI isn't:
"AI can’t see the question you’re not asking."
Many of us are helping organisations because we see the problems and ask the questions that they are not seeing and asking.
AI will only give back to them what they already see.
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The little brick house atop the dam where the dam faeries live. Cornelis Pond, Woodtick Recreation Area, Wolcott, Connecticut. June 13, 2019, 6:09 PM.
#hiking #photography #outdoors #landscapephotography #nature #Connecticut #spring #forest #moon #lake #springtime #dam
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Remote Sensing And The New Global River Science
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https://doi.org/10.1038/s44221-026-00665-2 <-- shared paper
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“Rivers impact the well-being of humans and the environment. As they increasingly face planetary-scale stressors, it is critically important to monitor and understand rivers at the global scale. As the only synoptic resource for global primary data on rivers, satellite remote sensing has recently begun to provide unprecedented opportunities for the monitoring, understanding, and prediction of global river behaviour. Despite these advances, the role of satellite remote sensing in global river science has still not been fully explored. New satellite systems and algorithms will enable substantial improvements in river measurements, provide new answers to long-standing or newly emerging scientific questions, and eventually update basic knowledge of rivers to advance global river science. In this [paper they] explore how remote sensing has been used to study the world’s rivers, examine challenges and opportunities for further advancing our understanding of rivers using existing and upcoming sensors, and identify possible solutions and future research directions…”
#GIS #spatial #mapping #water #hydrology #satellite #remotsesensing #earthobservation #hydrography #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #physicalgeography #change #river #global #model #modeling #research #hydrogeomorphology #geomorphometry #riverine #humanimpacts #waterquality #waterresources #watermanagement #infrastructure #lake #reservoir #dam #impoundment #canals #avulsion #overbank #flood #flooding #erosion #sedimentation #morphology #network #downstream -
When Water Was A Little More Plentiful
The Hoover (Bolder) Dam, 1980
(Details In The AltText) (Scanned 35mm Negative)
#AltText #NoAi #No2AI #Photography #Photo #POTD #PhotoOfTheDay #Travel #TravelPhotography #CamelCase #US #USA #BNW #BlackAndWhite #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Monochrome #Nevada #Water #Dam #Dams #ColoradoRiver #River #Rivers
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CW: IndoPol
The removal of #Kerala's representative from the #Mullaperiyar #dam safety panel by the Central Dam Safety Authority is yet another blatant violation of #India's #federalism and even basic decency. This is more akin to a #colonial rule.
It's also clear that the new #TamilNadu state government by #TVK under the leadership of CM #Vijay is behind this move. This is an under handed, unjustifiable, indignant and dishonorable action.
Shame on you #GovernmentOfIndia #GoI & #TVK!
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Courrier international – Dans le #Montana, “la guerre du bison” déchire la #prairie : l’administration #Trump tente d’expulser des #bisons des #terres fédérales, pour le plus grand bonheur de certains éleveurs, mais au grand #dam des #associations #environnementales et des #tribus #amérindiennes. Une #politique qui s’inscrit dans la volonté de prioriser “l’exploitation pétrolière, minière et forestière”, analyse “The #NewYorkTimes”.
